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For almost seven hundred years, the Havasupai Indians, who call themselves People of the Blue Water, have lived in an area that includes the depths of the western Grand Canyon and the heights of the San Francisco Peaks. Here they inhabited the greatest altitude variation of any Indians in Southwestern America. Written in consultation with some of the last Havasupai shamans, this book details their religious beliefs, customs, and healing practices. A second section presents legends of the Havasupai origin, the first people, and tales of Coyote, Gila Monster, Bear, and others.

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title:Havasupai Legends : Religion and Mythology of the Havasupai Indians of the Grand Canyon
author:Smithson, Carma Lee.; Euler, Robert C.
publisher:University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13:9780874804461
ebook isbn13:9780585134307
language:English
subjectHavasupai Indians--Folklore, Havasupai mythology.
publication date:1994
lcc:E99.H3S56 1994eb
ddc:398.2/089975
subject:Havasupai Indians--Folklore, Havasupai mythology.
Page iii
Havasupai Legends
Religion and Mythology of the Havasupai Indians of the Grand Canyon
Carma Lee Smithson
and
Robert C. Euler
University of Utah Press
Salt Lake City
Page iv
Preface 1994 by the University of Utah Press
All rights reserved
Originally published as University of Utah Anthropological Papers no. 68, April 1964, with the title Havasupai Religion and Mythology
Printed on acid-free paper
Photographs courtesy of Robert C. Euler
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Smithson, Carma Lee.
[Havasupai religion and mythology]
Havasupai legends: religion and mythology of the Havasupai Indians
of the Grand Canyon / Carma Lee Smithson and Robert C. Euler.
p. cm.
Originally published: Havasupai religion and mythology. Salt Lake
City : University of Utah Press, 1964, in series: University of Utah anthro
pological papers; no. 68.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-87480-446-9 (paperback : acid-free paper)
1. Havasupai IndiansLegends. 2. Havasupai IndiansReligion
and mythology. I. Title.
E99.H3S56 1994
398.2'089975dc20
93-41857
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Contents
Preface
vii
Religion
1
Picture 2
Sacred Places and Spirits
2
Picture 3
Conceptions of the Soul
3
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Shamans and Illness
5
Picture 5
Concepts of Disease and Illness
14
Picture 6
Preventive Medicine
15
Picture 7
Medicinal Therapy and Contraceptives
16
Picture 8
The Sweatlodge and Its Therapeutic Functions
17
Picture 9
Death and Funeral Customs
19
Picture 10
The Funeral of Mexican Jack
21
Picture 11
Dances
28
Photographs following page
34
Legends
35
Picture 12
Origins
36
Picture 13
Havasu Canyon Walls Closing Up
39
Picture 14
Frog Rock
40
Picture 15
Origin of Menstruation
41
Picture 16
The Man Who Went After His Wife
44
Picture 17
The Lady Who Could Have No Children
50
Picture 18
Grandmother and Little Boy
54
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The Sun and His Daughters
61
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